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Another light subject. To keep it light ;-)teeth_smile
joe_farve_11 9 Reviews 583 reads
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Can you have an open discussion or dialog with censure? Is it possible to give more credit to people to make their own minds or do you censure what questionable to protect people from making their own minds? This is intended to be a general discussion  that it is prevalent now days. Or in other words a lite question :-)

HarloweDahl279 reads

But yes, I am greatly in favor of the 1st Amendment and believe that a proper dialogue cannot exist without allowing all ideas, however inane or controversial, to come to the table. Censorship is a slippery, repressive slope. While I'm on the fence regarding hate speech (especially speech that could qualify as potentially inciting violence), in general I put more value on the discussion and action that comes out of debate over repressing contested ideas entirely.

(LOL- this is a super weighty topic, definitely not light fare!)

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SMILEY341 reads

When the originator of that discussion seems to have confused the words censure and censor. To censor is to remove some information or "offensive " material from the public eye. To censure means to condemn strongly in an official capacity. The board moderator might censor Something you said . If you said something and everyone who replied was in flaming disagreement, that would be a form of censure.

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joe_farve_11283 reads

Disclosing all information no matter how offensive, inane, controversial or ridiculous has a greater value then the act of not disclosing it. Hate speech, or any type of speech for that matter, only outs the perpetrator of the speech for what he or she really is. It is a disservice to "censor" it instead of "censure" it because the community would not be the wiser to such speech to make up their own minds. I do not believe that hate speech incites violence therefore censorship is justified. I tend to give more credit to people to perceive it for what it is.

Just as the rightest as the freedom of speech so do the offensive, inane, controversial or ridiculous people. The 1st Amendment is absolute for all.

But still I know that the owner of any forum has the right to censor if they wish.

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mr.ed297 reads

I dont intend to be rude.
I am sorry if this comes off that way.

It is not simply the confusion with the words censor and censure that makes the issue difficult to discuss as stated. There are a number of ungrammatical sentences and misspelled words that make it virtually impossible to understand what you are trying to discuss. I've read it over several times because I think it's a great idea to bring up a new and interesting topic and I very much want to encourage what you are doing. But it would require rephrasing the OP in order to have it make sense if we are to discuss it here in any meaningful way. The question, as posed, is literally unintelligible.

Again, I dont mean to be rude by saying this. I want to encourage the conversation, not discourage it. I just wish it could be phrased in a way that makes it possible for us to have a decent conversation.

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joe_farve_11216 reads

Fair enough. It was my ill-fated attempt at sarcasm and my spell check failed on me :-)
Adding from my previous post which I believe explains the OP. If there is censorship on any forum, how else can anyone make an informed decision about someone if the said posts are censored instead of censured. I tend to give more credit to people to make up their own minds. It does no harm to the perpetrator if the message is censored.

To reiterate my misspelled statement:

Just as the righteous as the freedom of speech so do the offensive, inane, controversial or ridiculous people. The 1st Amendment is not partial to some but absolute to all.

But having said that I still know and understand that the owner of any forum has the right to censor if they deem appropriate.

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mr.ed213 reads

I'm relieved you were not insulted at my suggestion that you try and improve the post so we could better discuss your thoughts!

People here have a hard time discussing anything that isnt directly pussy related.
I like it when other topics are raised and think that people who are interested in stuff here have other interests which are also interesting. [to borrow your word use technique]

This topic comes up a lot on message boards.

And it is one that is especially relevant to people who want to discuss sex.

There is probably no single topic in world, or US history, that has led to the banning of more books than sex. So it is a relevant issue here, for sure.

Just as US citizens should, i think, be allowed to read books discussing and describing sex - so they can learn and decide for themselves how to live with it - so it makes sense for people who come together on a site pertaining to it to have some greater freedom to talk among themselves.

But the moderators of a private site need to be concerned with whether those conversations make sense on the site; and lead to making the site interesting and worthwhile. If religious zealots decided to post here about how those of us who take part in the sex this site discusses will lead us to hell, I think a lot of us might wish those posts would be removed. That would be censuring them. But I think I'd be very glad to see it happen.

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